Stream: ideas

Topic: ✔ Use echo platform if no platform is specified?


view this post on Zulip Jasper Woudenberg (Jul 14 2026 at 20:35):

For my date/time library I'd love to put an example in the README.md, but to do it I think I need to pick a platform, otherwise I can't use an application header to specify the dependency on my library.

Would it be an idea to allow users to use the echo platform along with libraries, just for some quick demonstrations/tests of the library? I think that's reasonably in the spirit of the echo-platform, no?

view this post on Zulip Aurélien Geron (Jul 14 2026 at 21:10):

I opened an issue about this a few weeks ago: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/issues/9807
@Richard Feldman said that it seems reasonable, and @Will Hawkins started working on it. :+1:

view this post on Zulip Jasper Woudenberg (Jul 14 2026 at 21:11):

Awesome!

view this post on Zulip Notification Bot (Jul 14 2026 at 21:12):

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